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• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  ?" Yes, MIT is infamous for accumulating a collection of unusual and (dare ... 'm not sure who came up with the idea of a windowless brick cylinder for a ... most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I'm not writing another entry. Ha! So, let's turn this into a learning ... their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :') My goal is ... thinking about a lot is my major, Course 20: Biological Engineering. My classes before this semester were a mix of[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a ... is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for almost a year -- prime real estate for data analysis! When we suggested ... code a lab called Autocomplete. It was about implementing a data

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... , is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... far. A statement button: For those into feminist think pieces as well as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  things. When he got a new computer for his birthday and we finally upgraded ... solving, Computer Science was what I was really looking for. A few months ... Residential Facilitator (fancy speak for a TA who lives with the participants

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  . After spending weeks in lab helping put a paper together for SIGGRAPH, I ... location for current MIT students to show off their work. Exhibits are ... might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  Bayer, and we walked by a poster for this summer's new Bruce Willis movie ... a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  call before he passed. I'm sure my host family didn't inform me for a ... semester and asked for a few-day extension, I had simply been directed to their late policy. with S^3's help, I got a few extra days for a 'family

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid. Likewise, it took a year for my relationship with my parents to settle down ... out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... drew a mail carrier. I only know this because the crayon drawing still ... 't remember why I wanted to be a mailman, but I guess it just seemed like a fun

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... sort. But if you're going to Portland for a day, forget all that ... wind chimes for a while, Joe demanded that the cashier find the very best

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  are easy for a long time, and you don't walk around telling everyone ... whatever, but who are you doing this for? And some things you do still feel a ... hopes for myself, which isn't always a bad thing to have. Even with it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... -ray. So I went back to MIT Medical Urgent Care for a third time. (You may ... very useful advice for pain management, and helped me with a referral to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015